But last week wasn’t the fill-in black guy squint still around? So then this week’s student is out of order.
Edison wasn’t a student. He was filling in for Zack, who also wasn’t a student. Brennan hasn’t had a pet student since Zack got his doctorate some time back, though she has many students nobody particularly likes.
I hope to all that’s holy that next week’s episode gets them back on track to quality.
Well, yeah. But what I was getting at is if this week’s ep was supposed to be before last week’s, then where was Edison in this week’s? IIRC, Last week he quit because of all the drama.
I think this “out of order/what constitutes a season” explanation is far less likely than a drop in quality - probably calculated if the increase in ratings are to be believed! 
I dunno, Dinsdale. All I know is that Kathy verified Atomicflea’s suggestion. Or might’ve. She never tells me anything about the show except the ratings and that she has passed along my lists of bloopers to Hart Hanson. Who passes back the ratings. I think I see their priorities.
And I think some of the bloopers are on purpose. In one episode the FBI Building was flying a 48 star flag. Since it first opened in 1974, that might’ve been some fancy Shopping. Others are to keep the plot moving for most viewers, though it stops it cold for some others.
I liked the exploding outhouse, but I like blowing up things, so I’m prejudiced.
Remind me again, who is Kathy and what is your relationship with this show?
Just IMDB’d for Hart Hanson and saw <horrors!> that the annoying intern is in next week’s ep as well. I guess there goes my hope for an uptick in quality. Unless, that is, she reprises a role similar to that in which Kevin Costner peaked in his film debut… 
Yeah, that outhouse blowed up real good. And ya gotta enjoy flaming boxers. But seriously, an over-the-road trucker needs to take a leak so he pulls behind this darkened building that just happens to have an outhouse? And then he drops trou and sits down to deposit his gallon-o-joe?
Oh yeah! You’ve been gone and missed my shameless self promotion! Kathy Reichs is one of the show’s creators. The show is loosely based on her bestselling novels, though all that remains is the name Temperance Brennan and that she is a forensic anthropologist.
Kathy was my Human Skeleton prof 34 years ago. When the show came out I saw an article and photo in TV Guide, said, “Hey, I know her,” and we’ve been email buddies since. I help research her books, answer questions, and write bad poetry. I have nothing to do with the show. All I do is point out mistakes. My suggestion that they run the scripts past me has fallen on deaf ears, probably because my ego is larger than my ability to do more than rant.
The annoying intern might only be back next week as Sweets’s date. He was talking to her on the phone at the end of the episode, consoling her on getting fired. With any luck, that means she won’t be in the lab, drooling over Brennan.
Validation! Sort of. 
I have to say I was watching this entire episode anxiously awaiting the first time we’d see Angela and Hodgins in the lab and what sort of interaction there would be. This was the single thing (among all the other things) that set me off to the fact that something stunk in Denmark…and it wasn’t the outhouse.
Actually, I was well aware, and simply giving you another step onto the podium…
Just another way us DuPagers help each other out!
Thanks, but I think everybody else has grown tired of it.
Small world. Not that Kathy and I know each other (we don’t) but she teaches at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, where I was a student. UNCC isn’t known for much, so seeing her connection gave me a nice shiver up the legs.
Not only that, but when I was a copy carrier at the Charlotte Observer in the mid-70s, the police reporter was this cute young woman, very intense, good with the facts, who stayed a few years and then moved on to write novels. She was known as Patsy Daniels then, but I guess that name was too cute to appear on covers of murder mysteries involving corpses and autopsies, so she wrote under Patricia Cornwell instead.
Yeah, she’s cute, but gay and unattainable and believes total bullshit about Jack the Ripper. Almost enough to make me overlook how hot she is. Almost. Okay, MORE than enough. Much like Kathy who, under her own name, was really effing hot in 1974, but totally married. Same husband, with whom I have spoken and who harbors the same [del]fear[/del] respect for her. And is a helluva guy, and I stand as little chance now as I did when I hoped she’d be snowed in out in DeKalb in the Fall of '74.
What the hell is it about Charlotte? A few years ago I thought it was a sleepy, little town in the Blue Ridge. Y’know, someplace my sorta-home, Charlottesville, that I could relate to. Now it’s a center of banking and whatnot and its airport is now major.
I picked up a copy of Cromwall’s Jack the Ripper book on a bus stop bench and took it home. I was overcharged.
Not only is the book total bullshit, it is totally unreadable. Can she even put a cohesive sentence together? Since this book is supposed to be non-fiction, it places her below Sue Graton IMHO
I liked the London two parter but this episode was average, and Booth and Bones seemed a little over characterized. The new intern was annoying but I think that’s going to be a running gag, sort of like Murphy Brown’s secretaries. The lack of follow up on the Big Breakup was WTF!
The breakup was stupid beyond belief. My husband and I keep making fun of it: “Sorry, dear, I saw a black shape out of the corner of my eye and for just a second doubted you had taken out the garbage! I guess I don’t really trust you! Good bye!” or “When I came to pick you up from work this evening and you were a little late, I was like 'what the hell is keeping him so long?'I guess that’s doubt! I’m out of here!”.
I don’t need romantic relationships to last forever, but take as much care and thought tearing them down as you did building them up!
So very very true. 
Yes, she’s a lousy writer and doesn’t really know much forensics (her “experience” in the field is as a tech writer and a computer analyst), though that’s her claim to fame. The people at http://www.casebook.org/ ripped her apart for that book.
I’m not sure your quote means what you think it means. For one, it’s really old, saying Fringe might not even be picked up (which is nuts, because the premiere has aired twice in the last week).
But it also sounds like if Fox starting shooting new Bones episodes in the Spring, it was stockpiling them for season 4. Not diverting already shot episodes from season 3.